ones is one of the most important procedures which were adopted in the process of the composition of biblical writings.1 My earlier analyses have revealed that the sophisticated literary technique of highly creative and, on the other hand, consistently sequential reworking of an earlier text in a later one was followed in at least twelve writings of the New Testament (Rom, Gal, Mk, Lk, Eph, 2 Thes, Acts, 2 Pet, Hebr, Rev, Mt, and Jn).2 Moreover, I have already suggested that this procedure was used in the process of the composition of the book of Genesis on the literary basis of the book of Deuteronomy.3 In the present book, I would like to analyse the use of the procedure of sequential hypertextual reworking of earlier texts in the whole Pentateuch and in the books of Samuel and Kings, which may be regarded as the most important ones among the so-called historical books of the Old Testament. The analyses of the hypertextual relationships which may be traced between various historical books of the Old Testament were already carried out by numerous scholars, even if they did not refer to the concept of hypertextuality